Broiler or gridiron.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANNE R. TALBOT, OF LOVELL, MASSACIIUSE'F"S,

BROILER OR GRIDIRON.

SPECIFICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 630,014, dated August 1, 1899.

Application filed April 17, 1899.

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Be it known that I, ANNE R. TALBOT, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Broilers or Gridirons, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains or with which it is most nearly connected to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to that class of kitchen utensils commonly known as broilers or gridirons, upon which fish, meats, fowl, &c.,are exposed to the fire for broiling.

It is the object of the invention to provide a broiler having such structural characteristics as will better suit it for use in preparing for the table some articles of food-such, for example, as it is desired should not move about on the broiler or be crushed by itthan broilers as heretofore constructed.

To these ends my invention consists of a broiler having two grated members or frames composed of wires extending longitudinally, the two members or frames being hinged or similarly connected at their rear edges and provided at their opposite. edges with handles of wire or other material, one of the members being covered With woven wire extending over the longitudinal wires of the frame and depressed between each two of the same to form compartments into which things to be broiled may be placed and by which they may be held from moving about on the broiler, and by which also they may be protected against being crushed or pressed out of material form by closing the other member or frame down thereon.

The nvention also consists of a broiler, constructed as hereinbefore described, with the compartments made by depressing` the woven wire between the longitudinal wires of varying sizes, so that different articles may be readily treated on the same broiler with all of the benefieial results hereinbefore noted.

Reference is to behad to the annexed drawings and to the letters marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same letters designating the same parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

Of the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved broiler, shown as in Serial No. 713,282. (No model partial open position, a portion of one of the handles being shown as broken away. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatical cross-sectional view showing how my mproved broiler' maybe made with its compartments varying in size.

The nature and design of the invention will be more clearly understood from the detailed description hereinafter given.

In the drawings, a designates one of the frames or members, and b 'the other. Both members are composed of parallelly-arranged wires c, extending between the end bars d, the latter being formed of sheet metal bent to necessary form or otherwise suitably constructed. From the end of each frame or member there extend suitable handles e, made of Wire or other suitable substance, and the handles may be provided with the nsual link or slide ffor connecting them and holding them together when an article is contained therein for broiling.

My improvements have been wrought for the most part upon the member co, the longitudinal wires c of which are made quite stiff and are wider apart than the wires in the member g designates a piece or section of woven Wire connected at its edges to the 'side wires c-' and extended across the wires c and depressed to an appreeiable extent between them, so as y to form compartment-s h in the member a, into which articles to be broiled-esay such as oysters, clams, small chops, &c.-can be placed and held from sliding about or being crushed by closing the member b down on the member a in the act of broiling.

The compartments'h may be made as deep as desired and also of any width desired. Furthermore, as indicated in the diagram constituting Flg. 2 of the drawings, the compartments may be made of varying widths, so as to suit articles of different sizes, and other changes may be made in the formand arran gement of parts and features of the invention without matcrially departing from the spirit or real character of the invention.

I lay particular stress upon the division of the member a of the broiler' into compartments by depressing the sheet of woven wire between the longitudinal wires, as stated, and for that matter I do not depend upon the form of the socalled "longitliclinal wires nor their course in the frame nor the form or size of the compa-rtments.

Havin g thus explained the nature of the in- Vention and described a way of constrneting and using the same, though without attempt.-` ing to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, it is deelared that what is claimed is- 1. A broiler or gridiron comprising in its construction the members a b having parallel wires and one of said members having woven wires extended across the parallel wires and depressed between them, forming compartments h, substantially as described.

2. A`broiler or gridiron eomprising in its construction the members a Z) having parallel wires an d one of said members having woven wires extended across the parallel wires and depressed between them, forming compartments h, the said oompartments Varying in size or area, substantially as described.

In testiinony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presenoe of two subseribing witnesses, this 8th day'of April, A. D. 1899.

ANNE R. TALBOT.

Wit'nesses:

FANNY TALBo'r MARBLE, TALBOT EWART. 

